Suspect Questioned In Couple`s Murder

March 08, 1987

Chicago police were questioning a suspect early Saturday in the double murder of Carl Jackson, 41, and Sonia Adams, 23. The two were found with multiple stab wounds and with their throats cut in a high-rent apartment at 1400 W. Harrison St. on Friday, said Sgt. Paul Roppel of the Harrison Area violent crimes unit. Roppel said Jackson, the tenant of the apartment, was co- owner of a nearby liquor store. Adams lived at 6324 S. Damen Ave. Roppel said there were no signs of forced entry, suggesting that the victims may have known the killer. The apartment had been ransacked. The sergeant said Jackson was found naked, buried under a pile of clothes in the kitchen, and Adams was found in the bedroom wearing only a robe. The victims had been dead about eight hours when Jackson`s relatives found them after they had been unable to reach him by telephone.